Re: [tlug] Acid drop on mobile?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Curt Sampson writes:

 > This may make little difference. Keep in mind that it's a proxy on a
 > very fast connection talking to your server, not the phone itself, and
 > the proxies often do a lot of work. (One example would be translating
 > XHTML to WML for older KDDI phones.) This proxy might also be doing
 > things that would reduce the number of round trips between the phone and
 > the proxy.

Right.  My point is simply that unless you're pretty sure that *all*
of the proxies are doing things that help you and not hurt you, it's a
good idea to do a lot of the work yourself.